Sentence examples for practical principle from inspiring English sources

How's this for a practical principle: don't use a sledgehammer to swat a gnat.

Companies in the public eye should therefore add a further practical principle: abide by the spirit of the times.

Introduced first as a practical principle, taqiyyah, which is also attributed to ʿAlī and other imams, became an important part of the Shīʿite religious teaching and practice.

The difference in mass is so slight for ordinary chemical reactions that mass conservation may be invoked as a practical principle for predicting the mass of products.

This is the practical principle behind "deny, deny, deny": if you never admit it happened, in some sense it never becomes part of the history of what did happen.

Unlike most suspense fiction, which operates on the practical principle that swift, cinematic scenes will keep readers turning pages without lingering to wonder about verisimilitude, originality, or, indeed, literary worth, Abrahams's novels are gratifyingly attentive to psychological detail, richly atmospheric, layered in ambiguity.

Here are four practical principles to begin with.

Scientific judgments, like practical principles, can be received "second hand".

Anti-bribery guidelines developed by Transparency International, Bond and Mango and a working group of NGOs gives simple, clear and practical principles for putting effective anti-bribery measures in place.

It is these that Seneca calls decreta; decreta thus are not practical principles or rules.

(I, 3. 4. p. 68) There are substantial differences between people over the content of practical principles.